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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
    tags: books, reading
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    Walter Scott
    “Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
    ― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian
    tags: revenge
    1360 likes

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    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: protection, silence, speech
    2907 likes

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    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
    tags: intelligence, mind, poverty
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: chess, daring, ideas
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    Richard Wright
    “I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
    tags: echo, words
    1149 likes

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  • #7
    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
    tags: impossible
    2669 likes

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  • #8
    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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  • #9
    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
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    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    “What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
    ― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
    tags: books, reading
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  • #11
    Ogden Nash
    “Tonight’s December thirty-first,
    Something is about to burst.
    The clock is crouching, dark and small,
    Like a time bomb in the hall.
    Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
    Duck! Here comes another year!”
    ― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On
    tags: december-31, new-year-s-eve, new-years, new-years-eve
    2034 likes

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  • #12
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
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  • #13
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
    16594 likes

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    Carl Sandburg
    “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
    6464 likes

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    Derek Walcott
    “The time will come
    when, with elation,
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror,
    and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
    ― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes
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    Jack London
    “I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
    ― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman
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    Abigail Adams
    “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
    ― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
    tags: feminism
    1511 likes

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    Nadezhda Mandelstam
    “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
    ― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope
    tags: silence, voice
    2533 likes

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  • #20
    M.L. Stedman
    “You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
    ― M.L Stedman
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  • #21
    Edward Lear
    “And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
    They danced by the light of the moon.”
    ― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat
    tags: dance, happiness, nursery-rhymes
    2200 likes

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  • #22
    Judy Blume
    “My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: inspirational, life
    2124 likes

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  • #23
    Betty Friedan
    “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
    ― Betty Friedan
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  • #24
    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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  • #25
    Sylvia Plath
    “Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: love, writing
    749 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
    12163 likes

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  • #27
    “Love is a rebellious bird,
    that nobody can tame,
    and you call him quite in vain,
    if it suits him not to come.”
    ― Ludovic Halévy
    tags: love, opera
    1303 likes

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    Richard Wright
    “Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
    2276 likes

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  • #29
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
    9726 likes

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  • #30
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
    5755 likes



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